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Tornado Warning 30, NWS Denver/Boulder, CO

June 19, 2004Lincoln County, Colorado

NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued this tornado warning at Jun 19, 2004, 9:29 PM MDT for Lincoln County, Colorado. It was in force for 46 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jun 19, 2004, 9:29 PM MDT (03:29 UTC)
Expired: Jun 19, 2004, 10:15 PM MDT
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Lincoln County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:32 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 19, 9:40 PM MDT	HAIL 0.75	6 Nw Wild Horse Point, CO
Jun 19, 9:40 PM MDT	HAIL 0.75	6 Nw Wild Horse Point, CO

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 130 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 625 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -113 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1117 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 1 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -14 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

325 
WFUS55 KBOU 200329
TORBOU
COC073-200415-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO
928 PM MDT SAT JUN 19 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DENVER HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN LINCOLN COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO

* UNTIL 1015 PM MDT

* AT 928 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  THUNDERSTORM WITH A POSSIBLE TORNADO 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF KARVAL...
  OR ABOUT 43 MILES SOUTH OF LIMON...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE...BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO...KARVAL
AND WILD HORSE POINT.

DO NOT USE YOUR CAR TO TRY TO OUTRUN A TORNADO. CARS ARE EASILY
TOSSED AROUND BY TORNADO WINDS. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT IN THE PATH OF A
TORNADO...LEAVE THE CAR AND GO TO A STRONG BUILDING. IF NO STRUCTURE
IS NEARBY...SEEK SHELTER IN A DITCH OR LOW SPOT.

THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A
WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS
AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN
INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO
COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A
SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE
NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.

LAT...LON 3884 10370 3853 10369 3854 10319 3886 10319

$$

GARD...WFO BOULDER

The office that day

Everything else NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 19, 7:43 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Elbert, Lincoln	62 min
Jun 19, 8:40 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Lincoln	65 min
Jun 19, 11:13 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Lincoln	62 min
Jun 20, 3:02 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Logan	43 min
Jun 20, 3:05 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Adams, Denver, Weld	40 min
Jun 20, 3:26 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BOU	Morgan	64 min

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.